The Closest Reader New York Times
Helen Vendler?s office is to serve Poetry, which she does with the precision of a chemist and the devotion of a religious acolyte.
Misprint Is Spied In Lazarus Poem At Liberty Island The New York Sun
There appears to be an error on the bronze plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, inscribed with the famous sonnet "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus. Lazarus's poem contains the immortal lines: "‘Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.'" Just prior to these lines on the plaque are inscribed the
Rebel Central Los Angeles Weekly
There’s a grit in the air: Can you feel it? These are weird times, grim times, happy times, y times. Good god, these are the funkiest of times. In times such as these, music becomes more important, not less.
Glamour Girls DVD Talk
Kino's Glamour Girls set pulls together five rather disparate films, all featuring strong female leads.
BOOKS: Proud Flesh Nashville Scene
Charles Wright, one of the most illustrious poets to emerge from the South since James Dickey, confesses that he’s the only Southerner he knows who can’t tell a story.
Beatboxers Make Some Serious Noise The Village Voice
Hip-hop disrespects them. Subway patrons love them. Beatboxers make some serious noise. (By Derek L. John)
Trembling on the Brink of a Lovely Song Port Folio Weekly
When the Library of America published the first two volumes of an anthology of American poetry several years ago, I was surprised to find that alongside all the usual suspects – T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Langston Hughes, for example – were verses by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and other great American songwriters.
Watership Down, Lyric Hammersmith, London Independent
In this new version of Watership Down, the foxes and stoats wield flick knives and the rabbits defend themselves with kung fu. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Melly Still, the director of Coram Boy who reduced the younger members of her audience to tearful, quivering wrecks with her vision of lost children in 18th-century London.
Scatter Pop Metro Weekly
It is the best of albums, it is the worst of albums. With apologies to Charles Dickens, never before has there been a more polarizing release by Britpop idol Robbie Williams than his latest offering, Rudebox .
OSB adds a new album to its triumphant year Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Having opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd at The DCU Center in January and performed for U.S. troops in Kuwait and Iraq around the Fourth of July holiday, the band OSB has had quite a year for itself. But the best is yet to come.
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